fer's brain dump

I’ve been building a bot.

I’m writing this for me, for my own sanity if I need to do it again, but if it helps someone, better.

Heterogeneous computing is an age old concept, and very present today.

Someone on Hacker News, on a discussion about how perfect systems don’t exist, dropped this: A great skill I have been developing as I mature is the ability to look at a seemingly suboptimal implementation I receive and not be appalled by the perceived su…

Some time ago I was interested in scraping data from Interpol Red Notices to see if there was some interesting pattern, also it was a great chance to learn asyncio.

Who doesn’t remember War Games (1983)?

When one does some dev job, for public facing systems or user installable apps, some design choices will allow later to replace languages relatively easily. i18n, as a single language/country domain problem, is largely solved by many frameworks and librar…